'Moonlight' Sweeps with 6 Major Wins at the 2017 Indie Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards are an annual award given in the name of independent film, featuring plenty of those little indies which deserve the honor and recognition that they usually don't receive - celebrating their 32nd year. The 2017 winners of the Spirit Awards were announced Saturday before the Oscars at a ceremony out in Santa Monica. The big winner this year was Moonlight, winning six awards total in almost all of the categories it was nominated in, including Best Director (go Barry Jenkins!), Best Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. This seems like a strong message to the Academy about how great this films is, even if it doesn't win any Oscars. Read on for the list of Indie Spirit Awards results.

You'll notice an [IMDb] link next to each film. This is so you can discover great new films, because there is guaranteed to be at least one film you've never heard of in here. Read on for a complete list of nominees and winners from the 32nd Independent Spirit Awards. Winners from each category are designated in BOLD.

For last year's list of nominees and winners, which included Spotlight winning Best Feature + Best Director and Abraham Attah from Beasts of No Nation winning Best Actor - click here. This year's set of nominees for the Indie Spirits have many major Oscar crossovers, but still includes quite a few true independents that barely got mentioned by The Academy. I'm very happy to see Other People winning an award, as well as nominations for excellent indie films like Under the Shadow, American Honey, Little Men, 20th Century Women, The Fits, and Morris from America. I don't know much about this film Free in Deed, but it seems to be the one they really loved from last year. Might be worth checking out, as are all of the films nominated.

For more: SpiritAwards.com. A big indie congratulations to all of 2017's winners & nominees!